Agricultural commodities: non-food raw materials

Agricultural commodities: non-food raw materials

Chalmin, P.

International commodity markets handbook 1992: 209-239

1991

Market trends in agricultural raw materials traditionally foreshadow economic trends in the overall economy, but the reverse can also be the case: from the start of late 1989, the majority of non-food agricultural raw materials markets started to fall in reaction to the general slowdown in demand, to the uncertainties in the import markets of Eastern Europe and the USSR, and to the increase in agricultural raw material surpluses.